1966 Myers Brothers 250
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 41 of 59 in the 1966 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
| Date | August 27, 1966 | ||
| Official name | Myers Brothers 250 | ||
| Location | Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.250 mi (0.421 km) |
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| Distance | 250 laps, 62.5 mi (100.5 km) | ||
| Weather | Warm with temperatures approaching 84.9 °F (29.4 °C); wind speeds up to 7 miles per hour (11 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 45.928 miles per hour (73.914 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 15,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Petty Enterprises | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | David Pearson | Cotton Owens | |
| Laps | 129 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 6 | David Pearson | Cotton Owens | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1966 Myers Brothers 250 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on August 27, 1966, at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Bowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned 1⁄4-mile (0.40 km) asphalt flat oval short track and longstanding football stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing's most legendary venues, and is referred to as "NASCAR's longest-running weekly race track". Bowman Gray Stadium is part of the Winston-Salem Sports and Entertainment Complex and is home of the Winston-Salem State University Rams football team. It was also the home of the Wake Forest University football team from 1956 until Groves Stadium (later BB&T Field) opened in 1968.
The race took one hour and twenty-one minutes to complete. Three cautions were given out by NASCAR for sixteen laps. Notable speeds for this race were: 45.928 miles per hour (73.914 km/h) as the average speed and 54.348 miles per hour (87.465 km/h) for the pole position speed. Because the paved oval course only spanned 0.250 miles (0.402 km), speeds on this track emulated that of America's Interstate Highway System. Fifteen thousand fans came to see David Pearson defeat Richard Petty by ten seconds. There were 23 American-born drivers and one foreign driver (Don Biederman).
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